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The work beast --
The oyster pirate --
The seal hunter --
The tramp --
The student --
The prospector --
The aspiring writer --
The muckraker --
The war correspondent --
The lover --
The celebrity --
The sailor --
The rancher --
The jade.

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Lives of Jack London

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James L. Haley.

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Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack Londonadventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation더 읽기…

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"Booklist" (Starred Review) "Careful research illuminates the creative process through which London forged such powerful works as "Call of the Wild, White Fang, " and "The Game."..[A]ny reader who shares even a spark of London's incandescent curiosity will relish this vivid portrait." "Library Journal""Haley's work is the sympathetically told story of a man unlucky in his birth to foolish parents, unlucky enough in his health to die at 40, and unlucky with women until his second wife, Charmian. Recommended." "Wall Street Journal""[A] valuable London biography. It surpasses Irving Stone's 1938 "Sailor on Horseback," giving us a well-delineated picture of a singular, complicated figure...These days we have little sense of the literary glory that was Jack London. Thanks to James Haley's zeal, the author of [the fiercely imaginative "Before Adam"], not just the man of "The Call of the Wild," is before us again." "Daily Telegraph"(UK) "[Haley's] argument is persuasive that the unexpurgated London has never been more relevant...His biography is polished, sleek, readable and pulls no punches.""San Francisco Chronicle" "[A] gripping narrative...Haley understands what longtime scholars of London have often failed to see: that London had multiple lives, and explored his own identities in his fiction." "Seattle Times" "[V]ividly drawn...Haley has done a fine job. His book is a compelling story about a man who, after the death of Mark Twain in 1910, was America's most prominent author."Crosscut.com "In "Wolf," James L. Haley gives us a terrific, compact biography that helps to restore London as a complex, prodigious writer of much (perhaps too much) more than tales of adventure." "Biography" "Rough-and-tumble, passionate writer who set the stage for Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck captured in tumultuous color." "Irish Examiner (Cork)" ""Wolf" is a glorious achievement which will encourage readers t더 읽기…

"The work beast -- The oyster pirate -- The seal hunter -- The tramp -- The student -- The prospector -- The aspiring writer -- The muckraker -- The war correspondent -- The lover -- The celebrity -- The sailor -- The rancher -- The jade."@en